Melancholia of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / / Thomas Blom Hansen |
Autore | Hansen Thomas Blom <1958-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.891/41068455 |
Soggetto topico | East Indians - South Africa - Durban |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4008-4261-1
9786613589873 1-280-49464-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality". |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453313903321 |
Hansen Thomas Blom <1958-> | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Melancholia of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / / Thomas Blom Hansen |
Autore | Hansen Thomas Blom <1958-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.891/41068455 |
Soggetto topico | East Indians - South Africa - Durban |
Soggetto non controllato |
Africans
Asiatic question Bollywood films Chatsworth Durban Hinduism Indian life Indian middle class Indian township Indian townships Indian Indians Jacob Zuma Muslims Natal Pentecostal Christianity South Africa South African Indians South Africans ambition apartheid regulation apartheid autonomy charou church communities colonialism coolie cultural economy cultural intimacy cultural mobility culturally alien people cynicism diasporic imagination disengagement ethnoracial definition kombi taxi majoritarianism minorities neo-Hindu movements non-African communities policy makers politics postapartheid city postapartheid freedom postapartheid society postapartheid private taxi industry public culture race lines racial practices racial segregation racialized identities racism religious identity religious purification representative politics roots tourism social activists social mobility spiritual purification township politics traditional conservatism urban landscape urban music working-class Indians youth culture |
ISBN |
1-4008-4261-1
9786613589873 1-280-49464-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality". |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790955303321 |
Hansen Thomas Blom <1958-> | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / / Thomas Blom Hansen |
Autore | Hansen Thomas Blom <1958-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.891/41068455 |
Soggetto topico | East Indians - South Africa - Durban |
Soggetto non controllato |
Africans
Asiatic question Bollywood films Chatsworth Durban Hinduism Indian life Indian middle class Indian township Indian townships Indian Indians Jacob Zuma Muslims Natal Pentecostal Christianity South Africa South African Indians South Africans ambition apartheid regulation apartheid autonomy charou church communities colonialism coolie cultural economy cultural intimacy cultural mobility culturally alien people cynicism diasporic imagination disengagement ethnoracial definition kombi taxi majoritarianism minorities neo-Hindu movements non-African communities policy makers politics postapartheid city postapartheid freedom postapartheid society postapartheid private taxi industry public culture race lines racial practices racial segregation racialized identities racism religious identity religious purification representative politics roots tourism social activists social mobility spiritual purification township politics traditional conservatism urban landscape urban music working-class Indians youth culture |
ISBN |
1-4008-4261-1
9786613589873 1-280-49464-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality". |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811040503321 |
Hansen Thomas Blom <1958-> | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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